provoter says: May 12, 2013 at 1:40 AM ???What is really true is that the sun is providing an incredible amount of energy and that the limitation on how warm the Earth gets as a result is a matter of how easily it can get rid of that energy (i.e., what temperature the surface has to get up to in order that the emission of energy back out into space matches the ~240 W/m^2 that the Earth system (inc